Does Reservation Policy Need Reform
The socially and economically deprived deserve affirmative action, but its design should be such as to retain their incentive to excel and to prevent reinforcement of perceptions of inferiority. This would mean handicap points for different kinds of deprivation instead of quotas in admissions and doing away with reservations in promotions. The net result would be twofold: a slightly lower immediate representation of the deprived in the hierarchies of power but greater acceptance of and respect for those who do find their way there; and, for those outside the ambit of affirmative action, focus on achieving excellence rather than on ....
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Economic Development
- 1 The North-South Divide: Key Issues
- 2 The North-South Economic Divide
- 3 Fifteenth Finance Commission
- 4 Implications of Special Levies
- 5 The Goods & Service Tax
- 6 Recent Trends in Central Transfer to States
- 7 The Finance Commission
- 8 Centre-State Financial Relations: Indian Context
- 9 Exclusion in Panchayat Elections
- 10 Are Tribals Really Benefitting from the Forest Rights Act
- 11 Why Transgenders are Considered as Vulnerable
- 12 Economic Opportunities for Differently-abled
- 13 Climate Refugee & International Convention
- 14 Climate Refugees in The Indian Subcontinent
- 15 Inequality in Urban India
- 16 Urban Poverty in India
- 17 Urban Development & Transformation
- 18 Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs